Sunday night Nina Davuluri, Miss New York, was crowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant. She is the first contestant of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America.
When her win was announced, Twitter immediately exploded with hateful tweets, with people calling her Arab.
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Lawrence Rothman doesn't do everything the same way you do things. In the video for his lead single, "Montauk Fling," Rothman dressed himself as Elizabeth Taylor and seduced himself in a hotel room, and he returns with the haunting visuals for "#1 All Time Low" -- premiering exclusively on HuffPost Entertainment.
In the new dystopian video, a battered and bruised Rothman meanders through various scenes of a certain type of hell that make the grislier scenes in "Trainspotting" look like "Smurfs 2." Blood, dirty bathwater -- it's all there. David Bowie favorite Floria Sigismondi directed the video for the song.
"What I try to do during the 14 to 17 hours that i'm awake, and are participating in this rat race, is aim to experience shit that blows my mind and rattles the mundane cage of cynical normalcy," Rothman said. "Why? So that when I finally get chewed up and spit out on the other end I can say, 'Fuck it, that was great, those where the days of my life. This idea is the theme of my music."
"This video to cut to the chase, as everyone including myself, attention spam is about as long as a gif," he adds. "It's about me trying to do away with my adult jaded, cynical, self and push through a rebirth of sorts or a actually a reintroduction to my inner 'tween spirit' -- the part of me that doesn't give a fuck and goes with the flow, like when you're a kid and your parents are having a bitch-fest, but it doesn't phase you because you're too enthralled with building LEGO city."
Take a look below and let us know what you think in the comments. Viewer discretion is advised. Select tour dates follow.
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Hoda Kotb accidentally shared his cell phone number with the world, and at least one person used to text her a picture of your "trash".
The "Today" host was recently in a New York fashion week presentation and told the New York Post that he changed his number. The newspaper gave a look to some of the 2,000 texts received, saying that he was confident that you were not porn. "There was only one porn I saw", Kotb said. "Someone had to text their trash because that is what they do."
Kotb accidentally showed her phone number on the air last week while I was trying to demonstrate the new Samsung smartwatch. Your phone immediately began to fly with text messages and phone calls from viewers.
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We all know that a bed should be comfortable. But there is something more that a bed should be: welcome. At the end of a long day, when you enter your room, your heartbeat should slow as you look at this refuge of a hurry-up world. Perhaps I expected too much of my bed; But, unless you are Insomniac, one third of every day is spent on it. It must be very calmingly. Maybe even quite outrageously great, pulling at him, like a magic carpet in your dreams. At least, is what do the following beds for their owners.
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The Affordable Care Act is unpopular that ever, with whom they disapprove divided about if the law should be reformed or scrapped, according to a Pew Research/USA Today survey released on Monday.
Forty-two percent of Americans approved of the law, while 53 percent disapproved. It is the highest rate of disapproval that Pew has found since the enactment of the law in 2010. Attitudes among the uninsured were somewhat more positive, with 49 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval.
A survey of NBC/Wall Street Journal, also published on Monday, found similar opposition, with 44 per cent of Americans calling the attention of health law a bad idea and 31 percent call it a good idea. NBC released a series of explanations of the respondents by their opinions, fears about "death panels" and rising costs, the happiness that pre-existing conditions are covered and young adults can be covered by the insurance of their parents.
Average of HuffPost pollster of all of the available public polls put disapproval of Obamacare in approximately 53 per cent.
In the Pew poll, those who did not approve of the law on health care divided into what lawmakers should do next: 27 per cent of respondents said that lawmakers should try to make Obamacare work best, and 23 percent said that they seek to derail it.
"This strategic issue is a particular point of conflict within the Republican party," said the Pew report. Republicans as a whole were only slightly more likely to fail law want improved, while 64 percent of tea Republicans wanted the right to fail.
Americans are divided almost evenly over which party trusted more to handle health care. Forty percent said that they believe that the Republican Party would do a better job dealing with health care, while 39 percent preferred Democrats. It is the first time that a Pew poll found GOP ahead in health care since 1990 at least. While the size of the edge of the Democrats has varied widely in the past, a survey of December 2012 had put 10 points ahead of Republicans on the issue.
More than three years later became the Affordable Care Act, 34 percent said they do not yet have a good understanding of does them the law. Only 51 percent knew that a health insurance Exchange will be available in your state. Awareness of the exchanges was significantly higher in the States that chose to run their own bags, or partnering with the federal Government that in States where trade will be led by the federal Government.
The NBC/WSJ survey also found that only 30 percent said that they understand the law of "very well" or "fairly good" health.
"As it turns out, that 30 per cent has more positive views about the health law (42 per cent good idea, bad idea of 45 percent), against 34 per cent do not understand it very well (17 percent good idea, bad idea 44 percent)," Mark Murray of NBC wrote.
The Pew/USA Today survey interviewed 1,504 adults between September 4 and September 8, while the NBC/WSJ poll surveyed 1,000 adults between September 5 and September 8. Both use telephone interviews live.
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NBC and CBS were forced to withdraw the initial reports on the identity of the shooter responsible for the deaths and injuries in the naval arsenal of Washington on Monday.
Both networks identified the same man as the shooter and then they had to walk these reports back:
BREAKING. @johnmillercbs advises that reports initial identified the alleged shooter as Rollie opportunity are wrong.
-Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) on September 16, 2013
NBC News: now you are not reporting name of shooter; Contracting that report. delete tweets
-Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) on September 16, 2013
NBC's Pete Williams said that the error came from sources that found an identification card that looked like the alleged gunman:
.@PeteWilliamsNBC says name circulating "it is not the shooter," but the name of a man who fell identification card. #NavyYardShooting
-Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) on September 16, 2013
False reports were perhaps errors in a day of confusing and contradictory information.
The killer was later identified as Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas.
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This Science around us, and almost everyone can participate, to carry out a critical laboratory experiment to stroll through a Museum of natural history to simply navigate through a book on the Big Bang.
If you are a science nerd or a scientist Nobel Prize winner, we wanted to highlight doing or simply enjoy science. So we asked readers to share their science"self-portraits" - and here are our favorites. Click to see if the girl can detect it captured a bat... or the man holding a real human brain!
Please share your own science self-portraits by adding them to the slideshow below.
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"For all of my nerds bird companions out!"
"When the hands of our scientists are busy with science, helps you with your #scienceselfies". Here, physical Farid El Gabaly ranks a sample of electrode battery for analysis using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
Halloween Celebration at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.
The Junior high school students experiment with fire in science class.
"I analyzed the assimilable organic carbon in drinking water samples. "
A look behind the scenes in a quarantine area.
Posing as Einstein at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.
"This is how your holiday, in Costa Rica bats capture + Beach in the Middle time!"
"We spend a day doing fieldwork for the research Electrofishing. A brook trout caught!"
"I doing an extraction of basic drugs!"
"Medicine is a science, and, therefore, meet Jack Sexton, ACC!"
"Talkin bout autopsies all day."
"Very close and in the exploration of the distance. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ? Carl Sagan. "Taken from the Liberty Science Center.
"I love my job." At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
"Data data data data data today's data".
"My kids a few years back @ spark!Laboratory in Washington".
"This #realtimechem video summarizes a standard day in a chemistry laboratory of synthesizer".
"Hello only extracted a human brain."
"Inside a cage of faraday with a human brain."
This is what looks like a lot of science in reality ... "Reading / correct the chapter of the thesis of my student methods."
"My cells under the fluorescent microscope imaging".
"This weekend was playing with Dublin Bay prawns and a ROV. The ROV before using."
Of Washington University in St. Louis: "@WUSTLdbbs and @WUSTLmedschool have a lot of #scienceselfies".
"I am a bookworm, a scientist and World Traveler".
In a science classroom.
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